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Been around JC a bit tonight ,it rubs off it seems..;)

Hahaha ...

Sarcastic 1st floor.....

FBG, pessimistic is over there --------------------------------------------->

You appear to have the wrong floor. If you wore your glasses you'd see the numbers better on the lift!

Optimistic 4th floor..........going doooooooooown!


T xx

:D

Why on earth dont you lot be pessimistic ?

Oh i agree, i did think of that after i posted.... but you know what i mean. For those starting out and have a few threads to start, once they have read it once it'll become annoying.

The worry is, people will close the box having not read it and there being an option to never show it again, which means we've created a solution that's been made obsolete straight away!!

T x

Ah, Tracey, but it will only be when one goes to "Add Topic" -- start a thread. I can count the number of threads I've started on TTF and Surname Info ... well, on both hands and feet, in 3 or 4 years.

And just think of how many fewer threads we old hands will have to start if we're not constantly starting threads that say things like "PLEASE DON'T POST THE SAME SUBJECT MORE THAN ONCE" ...

I don't care whether we have drop downs or pop ups, as long as they have the desired effect!!

Hmmm,

The drop down seems a good idea, and i get the feeling it's one of those suddenly appearing boxes, probably seeming to slip down from the menu panel and only being closed when the cross is clicked....

I would envisage this box will prevent the person from typing into the trying to find area (by partially/completely covering it) immediately but only being able to do so after the box has been closed! I should imagine this bhox will have all the do's and don'ts about using the boards and the pitfalls of the surname filter.

The only problem being it'll annoy us lot who know how to use the bloomin' thing!


T xx

Ignoring the rest ... that's why "drop down" (menu) didn't make sense to me. Hopefully they're not expecting somebody to click on something ...

I remain hopeful that "pop-up" is what they meant ... except that people like me disable pop-ups ...

Shall we have a pool to guess what we will have come Monday??

Rolling pin time I think Frankie!!!

I don't understand either but just presume they haven't done something they should have done in the interests of keeping their customers happy!


Is there an alternative word for 'dropdowns'? Makes me feeling as though someone's underskirt (or worse) is showing!!

I thought I'd give somebody else the chance to show off. ;)

And I still don't understand ...

The post about brightsolid operating scotlandspeople has been deleted -- maybe because it looked redundant in view of Irene's post -- but my comment after that was meant to be in response to both!

...and I thought you were the 'google queen'!!!

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/search/results.html?section=&from=headersearch-search&query=%27sticky%27+application

All the more reason to be impressed with the pretty quick response once the lack of effective guidance problem was brought to their attention! They're juggling a lot of balls at once, it seems.

What's a "sticky" application??

By Erikka Askeland
Business Correspondent
ONLINE publisher brightsolid has won a further three-year deal to manage the family history site ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk.


The contract will be seen as another key milestone in the development of brightsolid's position in the growing genealogy sector.

The site, with almost one million registered users and growing currently by more than 10,000 per month, is run in partADVERTISEMENT

nership with the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS).

Brightsolid is among the major online publishers specialising in family history and genealogy sites. It has operated the ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk site since 2002 and also owns the genealogy site findmypast.com. Last month brightsolid completed the acquisition of Friends Reunited, including Genes Reunited, from ITV.

"This new contract to manage ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk in partnership with GROS is a significant one for brightsolid," said brightsolid chief executive Chris van der Kuyl.

"ScotlandsPeople is a world-leading website that has built a real community of users worldwide, with that number rapidly approaching one million people."

The site contains more than 50 million records dating back to when statutory records of births, deaths and marriages began in Scotland in 1855. It also includes parish records, dating back as far as 1533, as well as other data including wills and testaments.

Paul Parr, deputy registrar general of the General Register Office of Scotland, said: "We are very proud of ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. It is one of the leading sites of its kind worldwide."

The deal coincides with plans by van der Kuyl to develop the Friends Reunited site ten years since its launch by husband and wife team Steve and Julie Pankhurst. The firm ushered in a mania in the UK for hooking up with old school friends. In a bid to dominate new media, ITV paid £175m for it.

But the broadcaster was criticised for failing to innovate and introduce "sticky" applications and for continuing to charge for use while other social networking sites were free. In its heydey it had 24m registered users but traffic has dwindled to about 2m users a month.

Van der Kuyl admits it is still early in the firm's planned renaissance. Brightsolid has been running the business for only five months following a Competition Commission inquiry over the sale.

He says the firm still has 13m to 15m active users against Facebook's estimated 19m UK users. Friends became part of a stable of businesses run by brightsolid which will add to options available to users.

Genes Reunited, launched in 2003, is seen as a good fit with Brightsolid's other genealogy businesses: 1911 Census, Findmypast and Scotlandspeople.

Nudging on to my threads

New dropdowns - how exciting

oh!


THAT thread ......... I remember that well

Hmm, now I seem to recall you had a thread about their son Cottontail about three years ago. As Agatha in her dotage said: Elephants never forget ...


Say goodnight to your hot date for me, and tell him to give your electric blanket back. ;)

I do beg your pardon Miss Canuck..please..very pretty please.

It is believed that Mr Topsey married Miss Turvey sometime in the 1800s and they may have had a child called Mopsey.
All this is supposed to have taken place in Australia somewhere going on family stories.

Thank you for your interest,but it may be some time before I can get back to the computer to answer anymore questions as I am on the other side of the world and now have a hot date with my electric blanket which is warming my bed for me.

And exactly when did they marry, Ms Gaslight, and are those their given names or their surnames?

And if you want some help, you really might try saying "pretty please".

Sheesh.

Topsey and Turvey?